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Obtaining copy documents from Local Land Charges

Local Land Charges – service downtime

Due to the planned essential maintenance at the council, there will be a temporary interruption to the Local Land Charges Service. During this period, we will be unable to process Local Land Charges search requests 

Anticipated minimum service disruption dates: 24 May 2025 to 17 June 2025.  

We anticipate that searches will be accepted from 3 June 2025. There will be a delay in our processing of searches because of the downtime beyond the normal eight-day turnaround period. Our anticipated return timeframe for searches will be 20 days from the date of acceptance. We will update this information from 4 June 2025. 

Please note that we cannot guarantee that searches registered from 21 May 2025 will be returned before the service disruption begins. 

The Land Charges Team can provide copies of:

  • All documents revealed in the Local Land Charges Register
  • All planning Decision Notices

Many of the Legal agreements and Planning decision notices can be viewed on the Planning decision register.  

If you require Land Charges to provide copies of any of the documents there will be a charge. You will need to make a request by email land.charges@southoxon.gov.uk giving the address of the property and the documents required.  The Land charges team will contact you advising of costs and how to make payment. 

Alternatively you may wish to use our online form and pay by credit card. The Land Charges team will then issue you with the document.

Copy Documents – fee per document

  • Legal Agreements (Section 106, 38 and 52) – £41.42
  • Tree Preservation Orders – £27.37
  • Enforcement Notices – £20.71
  • Breach of Condition Notices – £20.71
  • Planning Contravention Notices – £20.71
  • Advance Payments Code Notices – £20.71
  • Smoke Control Orders – £20.71
  • Article 4 Direction – £20.71
  • Stop Notice – £20.71
  • High Hedge Notice – £20.71
  • Copy of Local Search – £34.03

Rates effective from 1 April 2025